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Ever see a movie that made you just hate the main character? I watched "The Pit" last night, and oh boy, I just couldn't stand that kid.
It begins with something that happens later on in the movie, but the real beginning is that he has to stay after class to write on the board. His teacher notices he's cut out the female anatomy out of one of the books and it appears on some drawing of the town librarian...embarrassing, but he's 12. However, even if they are skirting around the fact he may have a mental disorder, I think the way his parents were raising him could be an indication of how emotionally stunted he is. He still carries a teddy bear at times, his mom is TOO overprotective of him, and his dad yells at him when he's about to do something perverted like looking under the table to look upskirt at a dinner guest. Okay, he's 12 and he hasn't had the talk yet? Well, maybe if you didn't treat him like he was five, mom, this embarrassing situation wouldn't have taken place. True, he is an only child, but the little emperor complex is only going to make this problem WORSE.
Their dinner guest is hired to watch him while they're away, but it seems she's doing a better job of trying to understand him than either parent does. She is TRYING to make him responsible for his actions. He, however, has fallen for her. Except this isn't the worst part.
The worst part is that he's talking to his teddy bear and I swear that his bear talking to him is REALLY his subconscious. Even with the "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" of the bear suddenly moving his head, I have no freakin' belief the doll is possessed, I'm very certain he's only thinking what he wants to think. But there's an even far worse part.
The far worse part is that he's stumbled upon a pack of prehistoric creatures still living in a pit in the woods. And he's started to feed them meat, which he's stolen money from home to do (And he IS called on it), but he resorts to a far worse thing.
Like I said, he is emotionally stunted and kids and neighbors in town are pretty mean to him. The librarian's niece, Abergail (Uh, isn't it ABIGAIL? Did you just leave that typo in there?) is TERRIBLE to him. She's being a little a-hole about her bike, and later on, when she tricks him, her aunt sees it, BUT THE AUNT DOESN'T MAKE HER APOLOGIZE. Wow, really? I'm going to cite an episode of "Full House" where Stephanie reveals she was making fun of a classmate and had to stay after, so Uncle Jesse has her apologize to him. It's not easy, BUT HE WAS TRYING TO TEACH HER IT'S NOT COOL TO PICK ON PEOPLE. Cutting to the chase, this kid tricks the girl to follow him into the woods where she falls in and is eaten. (And it gets worse when he decides to make a threatening call while he is watching her undress...again, he NEEDED TO HAVE THE TALK.) Soon after, he figures he can do this to everyone that has insulted him (With the exception being the sitter's boyfriend, that was out of pure jealousy) and he thinks it was JUSTIFIED. All until he shows his sitter and she accidentally falls in and gets eaten.
So there are a LOT of missing people who are dead because he can't face his problems and he's being haunted by the ghost of his sitter...and of course, his subconcious doesn't even think he's done anything wrong! And worse is that he LEFT A ROPE FOR THOSE CREATURES TO GET OUT. AND THEY KILL TWO INNOCENT PEOPLE.
Sure, the police take care of the creatures and fill up the hole, but at the end of the film, he goes to visit his grandparents and apparently hasn't learned anything. Until he meets a young girl there who shows him there's ANOTHER hole with creatures in it...and she pushes him in. What goes around comes around, kid.
Unlike "Carrie", I couldn't feel any sympathy for a kid whose parents had emotionally stunted his growth. He didn't take any responsibility, he thought killing people because of how they treated him was okay, he was not given the talk...no wonder he was messed up. Carrie had a mother who was a religious zealot who mistreated her and never gave her the talk, but at least mom was more responsible in some cases, and Carrie just wanted to be LIKED. The whole tragedy in the gym happened BECAUSE she got pushed too far and her telekinesis goes crazy, injuring people who DID deserve it and people who DIDN'T. I can sympathize with her more because she was taught right and wrong, even if her mother ISN'T all there. She DIDN'T want to seek revenge, it just happened after she was humiliated in front of the entire school.
To end, this also felt like an ABC After School Special...only terrible.
It begins with something that happens later on in the movie, but the real beginning is that he has to stay after class to write on the board. His teacher notices he's cut out the female anatomy out of one of the books and it appears on some drawing of the town librarian...embarrassing, but he's 12. However, even if they are skirting around the fact he may have a mental disorder, I think the way his parents were raising him could be an indication of how emotionally stunted he is. He still carries a teddy bear at times, his mom is TOO overprotective of him, and his dad yells at him when he's about to do something perverted like looking under the table to look upskirt at a dinner guest. Okay, he's 12 and he hasn't had the talk yet? Well, maybe if you didn't treat him like he was five, mom, this embarrassing situation wouldn't have taken place. True, he is an only child, but the little emperor complex is only going to make this problem WORSE.
Their dinner guest is hired to watch him while they're away, but it seems she's doing a better job of trying to understand him than either parent does. She is TRYING to make him responsible for his actions. He, however, has fallen for her. Except this isn't the worst part.
The worst part is that he's talking to his teddy bear and I swear that his bear talking to him is REALLY his subconscious. Even with the "Big Lipped Alligator Moment" of the bear suddenly moving his head, I have no freakin' belief the doll is possessed, I'm very certain he's only thinking what he wants to think. But there's an even far worse part.
The far worse part is that he's stumbled upon a pack of prehistoric creatures still living in a pit in the woods. And he's started to feed them meat, which he's stolen money from home to do (And he IS called on it), but he resorts to a far worse thing.
Like I said, he is emotionally stunted and kids and neighbors in town are pretty mean to him. The librarian's niece, Abergail (Uh, isn't it ABIGAIL? Did you just leave that typo in there?) is TERRIBLE to him. She's being a little a-hole about her bike, and later on, when she tricks him, her aunt sees it, BUT THE AUNT DOESN'T MAKE HER APOLOGIZE. Wow, really? I'm going to cite an episode of "Full House" where Stephanie reveals she was making fun of a classmate and had to stay after, so Uncle Jesse has her apologize to him. It's not easy, BUT HE WAS TRYING TO TEACH HER IT'S NOT COOL TO PICK ON PEOPLE. Cutting to the chase, this kid tricks the girl to follow him into the woods where she falls in and is eaten. (And it gets worse when he decides to make a threatening call while he is watching her undress...again, he NEEDED TO HAVE THE TALK.) Soon after, he figures he can do this to everyone that has insulted him (With the exception being the sitter's boyfriend, that was out of pure jealousy) and he thinks it was JUSTIFIED. All until he shows his sitter and she accidentally falls in and gets eaten.
So there are a LOT of missing people who are dead because he can't face his problems and he's being haunted by the ghost of his sitter...and of course, his subconcious doesn't even think he's done anything wrong! And worse is that he LEFT A ROPE FOR THOSE CREATURES TO GET OUT. AND THEY KILL TWO INNOCENT PEOPLE.
Sure, the police take care of the creatures and fill up the hole, but at the end of the film, he goes to visit his grandparents and apparently hasn't learned anything. Until he meets a young girl there who shows him there's ANOTHER hole with creatures in it...and she pushes him in. What goes around comes around, kid.
Unlike "Carrie", I couldn't feel any sympathy for a kid whose parents had emotionally stunted his growth. He didn't take any responsibility, he thought killing people because of how they treated him was okay, he was not given the talk...no wonder he was messed up. Carrie had a mother who was a religious zealot who mistreated her and never gave her the talk, but at least mom was more responsible in some cases, and Carrie just wanted to be LIKED. The whole tragedy in the gym happened BECAUSE she got pushed too far and her telekinesis goes crazy, injuring people who DID deserve it and people who DIDN'T. I can sympathize with her more because she was taught right and wrong, even if her mother ISN'T all there. She DIDN'T want to seek revenge, it just happened after she was humiliated in front of the entire school.
To end, this also felt like an ABC After School Special...only terrible.